The Naked Gun (2025)

[morris_schaffer]

Originally Posted by levcore

Who's Loni?

Loni Anderson, Burt reynolds' ex. She's with Liam now. He, uhm took her.

Edit: OK this is odd she passed away yesterday. Didn't know.

[Mierzwiak]

So many great jokes! The Bill Cosby one and ponzi-scheme.com Arena are some of my favorites.

[Silentrascal]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

Ah, yes... the ol' "If you like it then there's something wrong with YOU" but, attacking the reviewer instead of the review. Never gets old.

Much like the ol' "I really have nothing to add, so I'm going to attack someone else's opinion" bit, right?

[Mierzwiak]

Originally Posted by morris_schaffer

Loni Anderson, Burt reynolds' ex. She's with Liam now. He, uhm took her.

Edit: OK this is odd she passed away yesterday. Didn't know.

What are you even talking about? Liam Neeson is with PAMELA Anderson now.

[NVllyRnnr]

Originally Posted by levcore

Who's Loni?

I should’ve said Pamela but you knew that.

[levcore]

Originally Posted by NVllyRnnr

I should’ve said Pamela but you knew that.

I do now!

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Originally Posted by Silentrascal

Much like the ol' "I really have nothing to add, so I'm going to attack someone else's opinion" bit, right?

[slip220]

Originally Posted by John1701D

An amazing accomplishment giving us such a funny throwback. So many people immediately bagged on the idea but they did it.

I admit it, not going to be a coward and hide, sometimes even the master makes a mistake.

[NI-Gunner]

More than a tad perplexed by some of the comments I've seen from various people on the internet heralding this as the "return of comedy" or some such. It was decent. Nothing more. Some big laughs, but plenty of the jokes didn't land aswell, or are a bit too far on the childish, juvenile side. The trailer ruined a few of the better gags too.

Neeson was great though, and I hope this does well enough that it leads to better comedies getting a green light.

3/5

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by John1701D

I laughed out loud more than once. I guess I'm AI generated.

The Naked Gun is a fictional movie...

[Zivouhr]

I really liked the car windshield scene. That was entertaining along with the whole auto driving car.

I think with my expectations out of the way, this will be more fun on a second view, but I did like it.

Originally Posted by levcore

Who's Loni?

I think Loni Anderson, the woman from the 1970s KRP Radio in Cincinatti TV series sitcom, died the other day, on the news station. I haven't double checked to learn more. Okay, she died at 79 from a long term illness.

So that is Ozzy, Hulk Hogan, Malcolm Jamal Warner (Cosby show), and Loni Anderson in 2025 just within weeks of each other.

[punisher]

going to the 1:25 show today..packing a bag of red pistachio nuts....

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Originally Posted by NI-Gunner

The trailer ruined a few of the better gags too.

I hope y'all someday learn to not watch trailers anymore.

I've been doing it for years with immense success when it comes to surprises in first-time viewing experiences.

[NI-Gunner]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I hope y'all someday learn to not watch trailers anymore.

I've been doing it for years with immense success when it comes to surprises in first-time viewing experiences.

I expected this movie to be complete ass, and I only watched the trailer out of morbid curiousity.

For movies I care about I only watch like 20/30 seconds to get a feel of the mood or tone. Cutting together a good trailer that DOESN'T spoil everything is just another lost art in Hollywood, with a few exceptions.

[eightslicesofpie]

I actually thought the trailer for this was pretty awful but the movie itself is very funny

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Originally Posted by NI-Gunner

I expected this movie to be complete ass, and I only watched the trailer out of morbid curiousity.

For movies I care about I only watch like 20/30 seconds to get a feel of the mood or tone. Cutting together a good trailer that DOESN'T spoil everything is just another lost art in Hollywood, with a few exceptions.

I have Regal Unlimited and just see movies blindly now, for "free." I have seen 44 movies in theater in 2025, and only nine I consider "rotten" (plus two of those nine were sequels and one was a Pixar film, so I pre-anticipated watching them anyway and am not disappointed for giving them a shot).

Ultimately, the experience has been more rewarding, and honestly if I saw the trailer first or just waited for streaming I don't think I would've given them their due.

I'm telling you (and everybody), you should really give this a shot if you find movie-watching to generally be a pleasing experience.

[Talal86]

I don't get the high scores, it's decent at best imo. maybe better than the average 'yelling is funny' type of comedy (mark wahlberg, will ferrell, kevin hart, ryan reynolds, etc..) but that's not a feat

[ophone]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I'm telling you (and everybody), you should really give this a shot if you find movie-watching to generally be a pleasing experience.

I like to watch the trailers they show before the feature presentations. I pretty often stumble on movies I put on my watchlist after. The vast majority of trailers I see don't give away too much. It's basically just the ones that don't have much else to tell that show too much in their trailers and those are usually highly commercial run-of-the-mill Hollywood productions.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Originally Posted by ophone

I like to watch the trailers they show before the feature presentations. I pretty often stumble on movies I put on my watchlist after. The vast majority of trailers I see don't give away too much. It's basically just the ones that don't have much else to tell that show too much in their trailers and those are usually highly commercial run-of-the-mill Hollywood productions.

I love the art of a great trailer, and even more so a trailer that knows how not to give anything away (or mislead). The best ways to do the latter seem to be: reduce its runtime, replace the audio with music, only show scenes from the first half of the film, and/or show deleted footage.

I just saw She Rides Shotgun yesterday, went in completely blind. Didn't know the rating, genre, runtime, cast, nothin'. I enjoyed my experience, but had I watched the trailer (just checked it out), I can piece together that whole movie. The word "spoiler" might play loosely since I don't know how it will end, but I let pieces connect where I might not feel tension in the movie as a result anymore.

I insist on not seeing comedy trailers anymore. They have to sell you with your punchlines, and I gotta experience them first in theaters. Same goes for horror movies. Not that jump scares are everything, but they are a part of most of their experiences and are a selling point for most.

Heh, I still remember to this day when the money shot for The Fast and the Furious trailer was a car driving under a truck (which is what made me want to see the movie), and that happens in the first minute of the film. Well done, I guess!

[punisher]

lots of laughs...it is a very short movie, but that's okay. The opening with the little girl was hysterical.